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This is a study of the interrogative form in children who are in the two word and four word sentence stage of language development. It reveals that children at this stage use the interrogative form analogously to their mothers. An analysis of the development of this capacity based upon the concept of the 'speech act' is given, which leads to the conclusion that it is the embeddedness of verbalizations in a particular personal relations-action context that fosters this development.